Car accident kills one

By Phuong Son &nbspJanuary 2, 2019 | 08:18 am GMT+7 Rescuers help with a car that plunged from a highway in northern Vietnam in an accident that injured three people. Many accidents in Vietnam are caused by reckless driving. Photo by VnExpress/Van Anh Do Vietnam saw an increase in both the number of accidents and fatalities over last year’s New Year holiday. A total of 136 traffic accidents were recorded, killing 111 people and injuring another 54 across Vietnam during the four-day New Year holiday, according to the Traffic Police Department. With nearly 28 deaths per day, this year's holiday saw a significant increase in fatalities compared to last year, which saw 124 accidents with 67 fatalities over three days. Most of the accidents this year were road crashes caused by speeding, driving in the wrong lane, changing direction without watching the traffic and drunk driving. The most serious of the accidents happened last Saturday morning when a coach collided … [Read more...] about Traffic accidents kill 111 over four-day New Year holiday in Vietnam

Rescuers help victims of the crash after a car was hit by a train in Vạn Ninh District, Khánh Hòa Province. — Photo nld.com.vn Viet Nam News KHÁNH HOÀ — A Tuesday evening railway accident in the central coastal province of Khánh Hòa killed one woman and injured four others including a five-year-old child, said an official of the provincial Phú Khánh Railway Company. A seven-seat car – carrying four passengers and one driver – travelling from the Tu Bông market (Vạn Phước Commune, Vạn Ninh District) to a crossroads with Highway 1A was hit by a train while crossing the railway lines at about 6pm. Witnesses said the train crashed into the car and sent it careening away from the track. Four victims suffered multiple injuries including broken legs and other bones as well as head injuries. They were taken to Vạn Ninh District General Hospital. One victim died. "Visibility … [Read more...] about Train-car collision kills one and injures four

By Son Hoa &nbspNovember 14, 2018 | 08:36 am GMT+7 The injured victims sit on the sidewalk after the fatal crash in Ho Chi Minh City Tuesday night. Photo by VnExpress/Son Hoa At least one person was killed and four others were seriously injured when a seven-seater car slammed into several motorbikes in Saigon Tuesday night. A man, whose identity has not been revealed, was driving the car on Nguyen Huu Tho Street in District 7 when he lost his control and crashed into a couple on a motorbike at the crossroads of Nguyen Thi Thap Street. The car then hit at least three other motorbikes and a victim was swept on the underside of the car and dragged for over 30 meters, eyewitnesses said. Many motorbike drivers were knocked down. The car then mounted the sidewalk and hit a street divider before plunging down a slope. The car that hit many motorbikes, killing one person and injuring four others, stopped after plunging down this grassy slope Tuesday night. Photo by … [Read more...] about Saigon driver flees after car ploughs into bikes, kills one, injures four

The car that the teacher of Vân Hồ Primary School reverses and kills one student last Thursday.— VNA/VNS PhotoViet Nam News HÀ NỘI — National Committee for Traffic Safety has ordered the Ministry of Education and Training to direct all schools nationwide to ban car parking in school premises or on pavements near schools. The order is to be enforced during school hours. The move comes in the wake of the death of a primary school student and injury of another when a teacher was reversing her car, with the registration number 26A-054.29, in Vân Hồ Primary School in the northern mountainous province of Sơn La last Thursday. In December 2016, a second grader in Hà Nội’s Nam Trung Yên Primary School was hit by a taxi while playing on the school grounds. The taxi, carrying the principal and vice principal, rammed into the student and fractured his right leg. The committee has, therefore, decided to issue the order to … [Read more...] about Car parking banned in all school premises

GONAIVES, Haiti: A bus speeding away from the scene of a hit-and-run accident ploughed into dozens of street musicians in the Haitian city of Gonaives on Sunday (Mar 12), killing 34 people, officials said. Seventeen people also were injured in Gonaives, a city of some 300,000 people located about 150 kilometres northwest of the capital Port-au-Prince. "First, the bus ploughed into two pedestrians, killing one of them, and injuring the other," Marie-Alta Jean Baptiste, head of Haiti's civil protection office, told AFP. The driver then rammed into three groups of street musicians as he tried to speed away, leaving 33 of them dead in a scene of ghastly carnage. Another 17 people were being treated at hospitals. Police were forced to control an angry crowd after the grisly incident in Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas. "The people who were not victims of the accident tried to burn the bus with the passengers inside," said Faustin Joseph, civic protection coordinator for the … [Read more...] about Bus in Haiti flees accident, kills 34 World news